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The way we approach Mental Health today is broken beyond repair. The question is, what comes next, and how fast can we get there?

June 3, 2020 by SharpBrains

The hid­den links between men­tal dis­or­ders (Nature):

In 2018, psy­chi­a­trist Oleguer Plana-Ripoll was wrestling with a puz­zling fact about men­tal dis­or­ders. He knew that many indi­vid­u­als have mul­ti­ple con­di­tions — anx­i­ety and depres­sion, say, or schiz­o­phre­nia and bipo­lar dis­or­der. He want­ed to know how com­mon it was to have more than one diag­no­sis, so he got his hands on a data­base con­tain­ing the med­ical details of around 5.9 mil­lion Dan­ish citizens.

He was tak­en aback by what he found. Every sin­gle men­tal dis­or­der pre­dis­posed the patient to every oth­er men­tal dis­or­der — no mat­ter how dis­tinct the symp­toms. “We knew that comor­bid­i­ty was impor­tant, but we didn’t expect to find asso­ci­a­tions for all pairs,” says Plana-Ripoll, who is based at Aarhus Uni­ver­si­ty in Denmark.

[Read more…] about The way we approach Men­tal Health today is bro­ken beyond repair. The ques­tion is, what comes next, and how fast can we get there?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: anxiety, biological, bipolar-disorder, depression, Genetics, JAMA Psychiatry, mental illness, mental-disorders, National-Institute-of-Mental-Health, neuroanatomy, psychopathology, Research Domain Criteria, schizophrenia

Transcript: Paul Nussbaum on Meditation, Neuropsychology and Thanksgiving

November 23, 2011 by SharpBrains

Below you can find the full tran­script of our engag­ing Q&A ses­sion yes­ter­day on holis­tic brain health with clin­i­cal neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Dr. Paul Nuss­baum, author of Save Your Brain. You can learn more about the full Brain Fit­ness Q&A Series Here.

Per­haps one of the best exchanges was: [Read more…] about Tran­script: Paul Nuss­baum on Med­i­ta­tion, Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy and Thanksgiving

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: AARP, Alzheimers-Prevention, amygdala, Andrew-Newberg, baby-boomers, behaviors, biofeedback, Books, brain, Brain-Fitness, brain-fitness-training, Brain-health, brain-reserve, Breathing, Buddha's Brain, caregivers, chronic-stress, clinical, clinical-neuropsychologist, cognition, cognitive-decline, cognitive-function, cognitive-improvement, cognitive-therapy, Cognitive-Training, Computerized-cognitive-training, computerized-training, consumer, creativity, dementia, depression, EEG, enhanced brain function, frontal-lobe, genes, happiness, heart-rate-variability, hippocampus, holistic, immune function, Improv, insurance reimbursement, learning potential, Mark Waldman, medical, meditate, meditation, mental checkup, mental-stimulation, nature, neocortex, neural plasticity, neuroanatomy, neuropsychologist, Neuropsychology, neurotheology, NIH, Nutrition, occupational therapy, optimism, Physical-activity, positive thinking, post-stroke depression, prayer, public-health, relaxation, socialization, speech therapy, spirituality, stress-reduction, wellness program, yoga

Marian C. Diamond to open SharpBrains Summit

November 25, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

What a bet­ter open­ing for our Jan­u­ary Sharp­Brains Sum­mit than to have Mar­i­an C. Dia­mond, one of the pio­neers of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty research since the 1960s, intro­duce us to the human brain, its anato­my and func­tion, and impli­ca­tions from neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty for brain health and per­for­mance at any age.

marian_diamondMar­i­an C. Dia­mond, Ph.D., is Pro­fes­sor of Neu­ro­science and Anato­my at UC-Berke­ley  and one of the world’s fore­most researchers on neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and enrich­ment since the 1960s . She is author of more than 100 sci­en­tif­ic arti­cles and three books, includ­ing Enrich­ing Hered­i­ty (Free Press/Simon and Schus­ter, 1988) and The Mag­ic Trees of the Mind (Plume, 1999). In par­tic­u­lar, she is inter­est­ed in study­ing the effects of the exter­nal envi­ron­ment, aging, and immune respons­es on the cere­bral neocortex.

You can read a num­ber of her pub­lic edu­ca­tion essays online:

  • The Brain … Use It or Lose It: a core com­po­nent of brain exer­cise is chal­lenge. Pas­sive obser­va­tion is not enough.
  • Why Ein­stein’s Brain?:  Dr. Dia­mond describes how she came to be inter­est­ed in study­ing the par­tic­u­lar­i­ties in Ein­stein’s brain back in the ear­ly 1980s.
  • Suc­cess­ful Aging of the Healthy Brain: beau­ti­ful essay on how to keep our brains and minds active and fit through­out our lifetime.
  • Response of the Brain to Enrich­ment: although the brain pos­sess­es a rel­a­tive­ly con­stant struc­ture, the ever-chang­ing cere­bral cor­tex is pow­er­ful­ly shaped by expe­ri­ences before birth, dur­ing youth and, in fact, through­out life.
  • The Sig­nif­i­cance of Enrich­ment: here, the brain phys­i­o­log­i­cal changes are explored in more detail.
  • My Search for Love and Wis­dom in the Brain: The frontal lobe is undoubt­ed­ly the most impor­tant area to cul­mi­nate the neur­al process­es lead­ing to what we call wis­dom and the most refined sense of love.

To learn more sharpbrains_summit_logo_webabout the agen­da of the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit and the incred­i­ble ros­ter of speak­ers who have agreed to par­tic­i­pate in this impor­tant event, click on Sharp­Brains Sum­mit.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: aging, Berkeley, brain-exercise, Einstein brain, enrichment, Marian C. Diamond, neocortex, neuroanatomy, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, SharpBrains Summit

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